The phrase "a primary deficit in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to finance, economics, or health to describe a shortfall or lack in a specific area.
Example: "The report highlighted a primary deficit in the country's healthcare funding, which has led to significant challenges in service delivery."
Alternatives: "a fundamental shortfall in" or "a key deficiency in".
Collectively, these findings suggest that individuals with schizophrenia have a disturbance in the evaluation of outcomes that is the result of a primary deficit in the prediction of error likelihood in MPFC.
We thus hypothesize that, contrary to patients with chronic schizophrenia, FES patients will only show a primary deficit in executive attention.
Thus, using these groups of rare inherited forms of IR, one can examine molecular changes associated with LD, and hence adipose tissue dysfunction, or molecular events associated with INSR to examine the consequences of a primary deficit in insulin signalling.
Several authors have proposed that symptoms of ADHD arise from a primary deficit in a specific EF domain such as response inhibition, working memory, or a more general weakness in executive control [ 5, 6].
Indeed, it has been previously shown that a primary deficit in profiting from encoding cues at baseline and follow-up was superior to free recall and other traditional measures in detecting cognitive impairment [ 27].
Further evidence for frontal cortex structural or functional atypicalities during infancy, as well as evidence that attentional control early in infancy explains later difficulties with social interaction (e.g., gaze following) is also crucial to establish attentional control as a primary deficit in autism (but see later for evidence against this association).
Some have suggested that all of these symptoms can be attributed to a primary deficit of cognition in ADHD sufferers, particularly impairment of executive functions [ 1].
4) Greece has achieved a primary surplus from a primary deficit of 10,5percentt of GDP (15,7percentt of GDP general government deficit) in 2009.
A primary deficit needs to be financed by further borrowing.
Speaking in Berlin, he said Greece would fulfil its obligations and hoped to be without a primary deficit from 2012.
Thus, experimental psychologists who favour a sharp distinction between short-term and long-term storage systems contend that the primary deficit in amnesia is an inability to transfer information from short-term to long-term storage.
